Essay On Cinema And Cinema

This essay will seek to outline my findings on movie and theatre by looking at still image and moving image. I will discuss the relationship between cinema and film, and also compare some works of artists in order to answer the question which how might photography be contextualized as image on the threshold of still and moving – as an object incorporating the temporal and the narrative, the writing of history, or the presentation of documentation as record.

A French photographer Franck Bohbot found the Max Linder theatre while he was working on a series of photographs of Parisian stage theaters in 2011, one of the earliest and most sublime theatres in Paris. That discovery led Bohbot made “Cinema” series, each of which was photograph of movie

This allowed him to take split-second pictures of objects in motion which could not be seen by the human eye, including bullets and hummingbirds in flight, light bulbs shattering, and athletes in action. Some of his photographs had an exposure time of less than 1/10,100 of a second (The Art Reserve). That is how he created those unbelievable moment. But compare with Sugimoto’s work, his work represents a specific and special time or moment while Sugimoto’s work represents a period of time. “Through the very introduction of staging and manipulation, a celebration of photography 's unique inscription of time is turned into a reflection on photographic time, especially its apotheosis as frozen movement” (Lecture note,

According to Paolo Cherchi Usai: “Moving image preservation will be redefined as the science of gradual loss and the art of coping with the consequences, very much like a physician who has accepted the inevitability of death even while he fights for the patient’s life” (Death 24x Second, Laura Mulvey, p17). Furthermore, due to the improving of technology, there is always something been replace by another. Such as analogue camera has been replaced by digital camera, telephone has been replaced by smartphone, and television has been replaced by computer. “… the digital, as an abstract information system, made a break with analogue imagery, finally sweeping away the relation with reality, which had, by and large, dominated the photographic tradition…” (Death 24x a Second, Laura Mulvey, p18). But fortunately, photography didn’t been replace by film, that is maybe due to a reason of photography has always had its own complex engagement with time and movement which is different with film (Lecture note,